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Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Africa Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Africa | Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Crashes, Killing at Least 150 Advertisement Supported by ByHadra Ahmed, Dionne Searcey and Hannah Beech March 10, 2019 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying more than 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said, killing everyone onboard. The plane was identified by its manufacturer, Boeing, as one of its newest models, a 737 Max 8. The cause of the crash was unclear, but a Lion Air flight using the same model of plane went down in Indonesia in October and killed 189 people. Officials are investigating whether changes to the Max 8’s automatic controls might have sent that flight into an unrecoverable nose-dive. The airline said the 737 had … [Read more...] about Ethiopian Airlines Updates: Boeing 737 Crashes, Killing at Least 150

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashes with 157 aboardNAIROBI: An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed Sunday morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board, Ethiopian Airlines said, as Ethiopia’s prime minister offered condolences to victims’ families. “We hereby confirm that our scheduled flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved in accident today,” the airline said in a statement. “It is believed that there were 149 passengers and eight crew on board the flight but we are currently confirming the details of the passenger manifest for the flight.”The airline said “search and rescue operations are in progress and we have no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties.” The plane took off at 8:38 a.m. (0638 GMT) from Bole International Airport and “lost contact” six minutes later.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office tweeted … [Read more...] about Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashes with 157 aboard

By AFP &nbspMarch 10, 2019 | 04:05 pm GMT+7 An Ethiopian Airlines plane. Photo by AFP/Jenny Vaughan) An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed Sunday morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board. Ethiopian Airlines announced in a statement as Ethiopia's prime minister offered condolences to victims' families. "We hereby confirm that our scheduled flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved in accident today," the airline said. "It is believed that there were 149 passengers and eight crew on board the flight but we are currently confirming the details of the passenger manifest for the flight." The airline said "search and rescue operations are in progress and we have no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties." The plane took off at 8:38 am (0638 GMT) from Bole International Airport and "lost contact" six minutes later. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office tweeted it "would … [Read more...] about Boeing 737 from Addis to Nairobi crashes with 157 aboard: Ethiopian Airlines

Benjamin Zhang, provided by Published 4:31 pm CST, Thursday, March 7, 2019 American Airlines American Airlines has grounded 14 Boeing 737-800 due to poorly installed overhead bins. The airline found substandard work in the cabins of two Boeing 737-800s that recently received updated interiors. American said it decided to ground the two affected aircraft and proactively ground 12 additional aircraft that were worked on by the same vendor. In total, roughly 40 flights were canceled as a result of the grounded planes. American Airlines has grounded 14 Boeing 737-800 due to poorly installed overhead bins. According to the Fort Worth, Texas-based airline, it found "issues with the quality of work conducted on overhead bins" of two Boeing 737-800s that were recently installed with updated interiors. The work was completed by an unnamed Federal Aviation Administration-licensed vendor, American said in a statement to Business Insider. The airline said that it … [Read more...] about American Airlines has grounded 14 Boeing 737s and canceled 40 flights because of badly installed overhead bins (AAL)

Two accidents of the Boeing flagship aircraft in the 1990s and lawsuits awarding damages worth USD 25.5 million reveal shocking truths about the Boeing Company. The Seattle Times reported the company’s long-standing awareness of the rudder’s propensity to deflect on its own. What’s more, the papers released by the court show Boeing discovered in the early 1980s, that there was little pilots could do to recover from some rogue deflections, yet failed to point out the significance of that finding to safety regulators and airlines. Boeing insists it did nothing wrong, and everything was done as was required to by federal safety regulations. The Lion Air B-737 Max accident in Indonesia has drawn the attention towards a similar technical issue. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) was a design feature incorporated in the ill-fated Lion Air B-737 Max but the pilots did not know about it. The larger engines of the B-737 Max required the … [Read more...] about A question of safety or ethics: The Boeing 737